• Accelerator

CupMena

  • Clean energy
  • Cohort 4 2021
  • Alumni
  • Accelerator

CupMena

  • Clean energy
  • Cohort 4 2021
  • Alumni

Inventor's story

Cup is an Agri-tech and Waste Management startup based in Egypt that builds a waste collection system to collect the spent coffee ground” SCG” to maximize value by reusing it to develop and empower solutions for the Agri-sector. We developed a highly efficient Agri-solution to cultivate mushrooms using the spent coffee ground as the main soil. In the meantime, we are working on the Research and development vertical and horizontal, which means we are developing new mushroom strains to offer to the market and developing new Agri-solutions out of the spent coffee ground Agri-sector in Egypt and the MENA region

from Egypt

About the founder

Mohamed Abd Elgawad, Founder and CEO of Cupmena. He started his career as an auditor in the tax field over seven years, with experience in business management for over four years. He is now an independent writer with published articles and a previous UNESCO winner in photography.

Abdulrhman Elhalafawy CBO and founding partner at Cupmena. He has been working with startups since he was 19 years old. He has been working in Operations and Business Development in many startups in different industries such as Waste Management, Agri-Tech, Manufacturing, Biogas, E-Commerce, Events Management, and Handmade. Also, He’s helping the early-stage startups to fundraise to finance their MVP.On the other side, He’s a Triathlete, marathoner, traveler, and coffeeholic.

Mahmoud Tohamy is co-founder and CTO Cup; He’s an agricultural microbiologist and mushroom expert. He joined Agriculture Research Center – Mushroom research and production unit in 2010 as a research assistant. During this period, he conducts his scientific work mainly on edible mushroom and medicinal mushroom cultivation; his finest scientific work was represented and published in 2019 in the international scientific journal “waste management,” one of the top ten Agricultural international journals.

Mahmoud holds his master’s degree in medicinal mushroom cultivation and how to use simple technology for mushroom cultivation; his master studies showed his influence by the Chinese school “trained twice in 2011 and 2018.

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